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00:42 Edinburgh's quite expensive to live in, aside from housing and stuff,
00:47 but even just going out, you know, like drinks, food, stuff like that,
00:51 obviously now the cost of food shopping, everything like that,
00:54 so I would say, even though it sounds like quite a high number,
00:57 probably, probably yeah, speaking from experience of us struggling
01:03 with the cost of living crisis. My husband's a taxi driver in Edinburgh,
01:07 but obviously with COVID and stuff it was terrible,
01:10 so trying to play catch up from that. So I would say yeah, that probably is
01:14 a bit of figure that you would need to probably live quite comfortably
01:19 in somewhere like Edinburgh.
01:21 And this is coming from someone who's been retired for a good few years.
01:25 You need to be earning above average, above the national average,
01:30 because it's a big city, there's a hunk of cost with a big city.
01:36 There's also a bit of expectation of things you do in a big city,
01:41 going out, things like that, which cost, and over the last six months or so,
01:49 and certainly since lockdown and that kind of stuff,
01:52 the costs have gone way up. And recently, I mean, we're just about to do a shopping,
01:56 it's noticeable what your food costs are, your costs of basics are way up.
02:03 I think that number's a bit unrealistic in terms of like a normal family,
02:08 to be honest, and money doesn't really come into it.
02:12 A lot of things are free, spending time with your kids and your family are free,
02:15 and you can't put a price on that, so I don't necessarily agree.
02:19 I don't think it, it doesn't even sound like it's representative of a lot of people
02:22 in Edinburgh, depending on where you're working.
02:24 I don't think that a lot of people in Edinburgh do get to that 36k mark,
02:29 except if you're in professional and corporate jobs.
02:32 Yeah, I think this area definitely wouldn't allow for you to live here
02:39 comfortably more than just yourself.
02:41 It's just hard for everybody. It's not just a case of, you know, it goes up and up and up.
02:46 Obviously we're a generation now of pensioners, which is even worse, you know, too,
02:52 but you haven't got to cut your cloth, pull everything back in again,
02:56 when you shouldn't have to, right? You know, you should be enjoying personally.
03:00 There's time in our lives that we've got left, you know, as well,
03:03 not having to worry about money as well, or saving money and not using money,
03:07 you know, that you've got, they tell you that, you know, to spend it, you know.
03:11 Yes, probably it's true, but when you've got family, you keep thinking,
03:14 that's not the right thing to do.
03:17 But I worry for the generation that's coming up now, you know, like some of my family as well,
03:22 because they're going to be paying for so much, you know, in years to come.
03:27 It's my grandchildren, then, to worry about what, you know,
03:31 what will they be living in that we'll not see, you know.
03:35 It's not a really nice place to be in, you know, really, at the moment.
03:40 I think you just go on from day to day and try and make the most of it, really,
03:47 and don't grumble, if that's such a thing, you know, as well,
03:51 but you've just got to try and make the most of it.
03:54 Also, depending on where you live, because this area here, for example, is very, very expensive,
04:00 and the rents also go higher because of student tenancy.
04:06 Some landlords abuse that a little bit.
04:08 You have, like, foreign students coming, you have a bigger, higher power of purchase
04:12 than, for example, Scottish students.
04:14 They're not still at home.
04:16 But, yeah, I mean, as a mom, I would definitely say that money for just me and him,
04:21 living here in Edinburgh, wouldn't--
04:26 I wouldn't be able to travel, for example, two or three times a year
04:32 to go see my family in Portugal.
04:34 Extra activities for him, nursery, all that really piles up.
04:39 So I would say, here in Edinburgh, that salary would go for a single person
04:44 with no dependents, fine, probably not living in this neighbourhood.
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